"An unusual inquisition" : translated documents from Heinricus Institoris's witch hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck

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"An unusual inquisition" : translated documents from Heinricus Institoris's witch hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck

Title remainder

translated documents from Heinricus Institoris's witch hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck

Statement of responsibility

[edited and translated] by Christopher S. Mackay

Creator

• Est insolitum inquirere taliter

Contributor

• Mackay, Christopher S., 1962-

Subject

• Criminal procedure (Canon law) -- Early works to 1800
• Demonology -- Early works to 1800
• Institoris, Heinrich, 1430-1505
• Trials (Witchcraft) -- Austria -- Early works to 1800
• Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800

Genre

• Early works to 1800

Language

• eng
• ger
• lat
• eng

Summary

"Heinricus Institoris is the major author of the Malleus Maleficarum, the best known early-modern textbook on witchcraft. This work was heavily influenced by Institoris's activities as inquisitor in Ravensburg in 1484 and Innsbruck in 1485. This volume contains the only complete translations of a large number of documents pertaining to these inquisitions, and is a companion to a new (and the only complete) edition of these texts, which shed much light on the composition of the Malleus Maleficarum in general"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

Language note

Collection of documents translated from German and Latin

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Studies in central European histories,

Series volume

volume 67